April – May: Jazz Fest and Florida
It was a fun Fest. I was basically responsible for making sure the volunteers got everything set up right and didn’t screw anything up. I spent more time roaming from stage to stage than actually sitting and babysitting the recordings, which is awesome. Get to see a lot more. And lose a few pounds. And you’re paying me for this? Yes please! I worked at the fest Fri-Sun and then Thurs-Sun, I worked at Carrollton Station immediately following the fest on Fri, Sat, Sun, Wed, Thu, Sat, and on that second Thursday, I went from Fest to a gig at City Park to Station. In cased you missed all that in the tweetiverse.
Here are just a few highlights of the 112 pictures I put online of the 420 or so i took. The rest are at Photobucket. If you click on any to enlarge them, and you have a problem clicking the X to close it, you can either click anywhere outside the picture, or the x on your keyboard.
The Pyscho Sisters – Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson-Cowsill:
Cowboy Mouth (skip the next two pictures if you don’t like them or have an unpleasant history with them ;))
Eric Bolivar and George Porter, Jr. at the Threadhead Patry
Dr. John as Irma Thomas’s surprise guest at the Threadhead Patry
Kelcy Mae (She performed at our wedding rehearsal!)
Jim McCormick (he would’ve performed at our wedding rehearsal if he wasn’t writing hit songs in Nashville at the time!)
Paul Sanchez and The Rolling Road Show (most of these people were at and/or performed at our wedding rehearsal AND wedding!). This was my favorite set at Jazz Fest this year. All the special guests, everyone was genuinely having fun, and it reminded me of our wedding (2 years next Tuesday. Holy Crap!)
John Michael of MyNameIsJohnMichael with the Road Show:
Another one “Out of the Mouth,” Jonathan Pretus, now with The Breton Sound:
Supagroup:
Better Than Ezra:
This one, btw, is one of my favorite pictures that I took this year. Plus, (one of those guys played in the second line for our wedding)!
And, my final night show of this year’s Fest, Susan Cowsill’s Covered In Vinyl: The White Album (in case you haven’t noticed a theme by now, they played at our rehearsal and wedding too):
The Creole String Beans:
John Boutte singing with Boutte Family Sunday Praise in the Gosepel Tent. I didn’t get to go to mass that day, but I was somehow assigned the Gospel Tent and Sunday praise. YOU figure that one out.
Foo Fighters:
I left the fairgrounds around 8pm or so Sunday night, and headed to Carrollton Station for the end-of-fest crawfish boil. Had some crawfish and a couple of beers, and that’s when I realized just how exhausted I was, so I went home and passed out.
Four days later I would wake up and drive to Gainesville. (Ok, so I actually woke up monday and went to work thru wednesday, but I really wanted to wake up 4 days later.)
Apparently by saying something to the effect of, “I’m sick of all these cancer dogs, can’t we just get a weiner dog for a change?” (since weiner dogs are primarily back problem dogs and … i dunno … easier to fix and less sad than cancer cases), Rose made a bus of weiner dogs crash, because she had a surgery on Friday night, and 2 or 3 on Saturday. One of which I sat in on. Ok I didn’t sit in on it I just sat in the room and looked at the inside of the dog for like 20 seconds when Rose called me over to look. Then there were a few more the rest of the week. Be careful what you wish for!
Huxley figured out that he can somehow make it on top of the cabinets above the refrigerator. I think this is because he loves sun, and we now keep the office, where the most sun comes in, closed, due to the fact that we have a huge bean bag chair in there now that we don’t want the pets to overtake. Also, the patio is being kept closed because…well, I dunno why. But that’s his other spot. So he found this.
No, mom, don’t force snuggle me, or I’ll shoot you with my laser eye!
I got around to painting the tall kitchen walls (minus the very top, which we’ll need a larger ladder for). But it’s still better than the wallpaper, and better than just being primed.
There was a spot in the master bath that bubbled up, most likely because I did that before having the wallpaper steamer, and I get easily aggravated with stripping wallpaper in the pre-steamer times, and may not have gotten all the adhesive off the wall. So I stripped this little bit off and repainted it. I didn’t even mean for it to look like a demonic robotic chicken, it just turned out that way.
I decided to do something with the garden. I’d love to do a big overhaul, but we don’t want to spend oodles of money on that, so I just picked up all the leaves and spent $25 on mulch and 3 plants, and it made a world of difference. Light brown mulch as sort of a border, and dark brown in the rest of the garden.
Pink Flowers. These were originally going to go closer to the yellow ones, but after setting them here temporarily, I realized that was a perfect place for them.
Well kids that’s all for now. After Covered In Vinyl on June 9, I’ll be headed to Florida on the 10th for the week. Rose will be “off” to work on her project, so I’ll hopefully see a lot more of her than I did this time. Maybe we’ll get the patio done this time. And, June 12, we’re headed to Orlando to see Childish Gambino at Hard Rock Live. SO excited. That’s my birthday present exactly a week after my birthday. 🙂
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